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UNITED STATES MARVIN NEWTON, OF GIRARD, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 377,530, datedFebruary 7, 1888.

Application tiled July 18, 1G87.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARVIN NEWTON, of Girard, in the county of Erie andState of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to machines'for washing clothes, and has for itsobject to provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and eicient machine ofthis character, which"'may be worked with little fatigue to the operatorand will wash the clothes thoroughly, with economy of time and labor.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction andcombinations of parts of the washing-machine, all as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure l is aplan view of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is acentral longitudinal section thereof taken on the line x Fig. -1. Fig. 3is a transverse section taken on the line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. tis aplanview of the rack-bottom of the tub removed therey fr`om, and Fig. 5 is abottom plan View of the upper rocking plunger or presser removed fromthe tub.

The tub A, into which the clothes to be washed and any suitablewashing-fluid will be placed, may be supported by legs a, at properheight to allow convenient operation of the machine, in a mannerpresently explained. Near the bottom of the tub A a rack, B, is pivotedby gudgeons or journals b b to the opposite sides of the tub,'so as tohave a liniited tilting or rocking motion, sufficient to cause the waterin the tub to be forced through the clothes, which are placed on therack and between it and the upper plunger or presser, C, which isjournaled by side gudgeons, c c, at the opposite sides of the tub A,andis provided with a handle, D, which projects from one end of the tubto allow a person to grasp its cross-bar d to conveniently operate themachine.

The presser C may be journaled higher or lower in the tub to accommodatevarying Serial No. 244,635. (No model.)

l quantities of clothes placed between it and of journaling both therack and presser in the tub an upright bar, E, is fixed to each side ofthe tub, and to the lower broadened end of this bar E anotherbar, F, ispivoted, and pref erably by the adjacent gudgeons b of the lower .ofbarsE F, at opposite sides of the tub A, are formed series ofsemicircular recesses, which, when the bars F are swung over close tothe bars E, form journal-bearingsf, in any presser G may be placed andheld by opposite hooks G G, which are pivoted to the bars E and lockover and outside of the bars F. The

may be swung outward, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to allowthe presser C to be adj usted higher or lower in the tub. Any sui tableclamping devices may be employed to lock the bars E F together forholding the rocking presser instead of the hooks G, above described.

The presser Gis made, preferably, in boxlike form, open at the bottom,or with a top connected by one or more partitions, c", onelongitudinally-ranging partition being shown in the drawings. Thejournals c c of the presser are formed at the ends of a cross-bar, c4,which is fixed to the top plate, c. In the plate c there are made holesh, which allow exit of air from the interior of the presser as its endsmove or rock downward, and over these holes there are arrangedflap-valves H,

upward and induce a suction below. the presser which draws the waterthrough the clothes. The valves II also prevent spattering of water orwashing-fluid through the holes h as the machine is in use. A plug, a,fitted in a hole in the tub, may be withdrawn to allow the Washing-Huidto discharge from the tub. g

The operation, brieiiy stated, is as follows: After the clothes to bewashed are placed upon' the botto'm rack, B, the presser C will beadjusted in bearings f, so as to press snugly onto the clothes, and thehandle D will be worked the lower rack, B, and as a convenient meansrack, B. In the opposing edges of each pair opposite pair of which thejournals c c of the hooks may be swung upward andthe bars F j plate, cf,and pendent sides c2, which may be which close as the ends of thepresser move Y IOO to rock the presser, which will cause the rack B torock, also to force the water through the clothes, and as the presserrocks independently of the rack the presser may bel rocked as much asmay befnecessary to squeeze the clothes with requisite force to aid inWashing or rinsing them, as the Water is forced and sucked through theclothes at every motion of the handle, and the work may be accomplishedthoroughly and With economy of time and labor.

A machine constructed substantially as herein described may, withVslight modica tion, be used to advantage as a churn, as will readily beunderstood.

Having Vthus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a washing-machine, the combination, l

with the tub or tank, of the hollow rocking presser journaled thereinand provided with valves in its closed upper end, substantially as setforth. Y

2. The combination, in a washing-machine, of a tub, a rocking rack oropen bottom journaled therein, a rocking presser journaled in the tubabove the rocking bottom and made hollow at the under side and providedwith air holes and valves closing said holes to induce suction, andmeans for rocking the presser and bottom, substantially as described,for the purposes set forth.

MARVIN NEWTON. lVitnesses:

CALVIN J. HrNDs, HENRY BALL.

